Gunter Wilhelm Grass' India connection - Times of India

As an author, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor, Nobel laureate Gunter Wilhelm Grass was a true giant with success in every artistic form he explored.

His association with India began in the 1980s when he joined the long list of activists linked to the country's peace movement and stayed predominantly in Calcutta (now Kolkata) with wife Ute from August 1986 to January 1987.

His extended sojourn in India resulted into the publishing of "Zunge Zeigen", an allusion to Kali's tongue, in 1988. It is a prose of approximately 90 pages, 80 drawings and a long epic poem of approximately 23 pages and is considered to to recognise Kolkata's role as a mirror of the global conflicts between the developing and the developed world.

"This is very sad. A true giant, inspiration, and friend. Drum for him, little Oskar," wrote India-born author Salman Rushdie on Grass' death.

The legend died in a hospital in Lubeck at the age of 87. Read more on him here!

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